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Re: HMD Touch 4G

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Post by martheen »

msh wrote: post #84
Doohickey-d wrote: post #82

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This doesn't seem very competitive: it's priced at ₹4,199 (€38,08) on HMDs store. On Amazon France, you can buy an "Energizer U506S" for €40.19 with free shipping. And that one has: CPU: 1.5Ghz 4-core (MT6739 from 2017) RAM: 2GB Flash: 32GB (and has card slot, dual sim) And it runs Android 13 Go edition (probably not well, but enough to run Whatsapp and such). So this device is facing some competition at that price p…

Those android phones will have a abysmal performance. I don’t know this device but it’s perfectly possible that a feature phone like this will provide good performance for its limited feature set on much lower specs.

In theory, yes, a dedicated development team should be able to write a usable feature phone OS today, considering we had blazing fast feature phones in 2013 at even lower spec playing music seamlessly while browsing the web.

In practice this phone's YouTube reviews show it's running dog slow while lacking basic features, just like pretty much any other recently released feature phones at its price point.

Re: HMD Touch 4G

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Post by abc123abc123 »

cactusplant7374 wrote: post #51
code_duck wrote: post #45

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₹4,199 it seems, which is about $45.

This is perfect. I've been looking for a burner phone for when I'm in Guayaquil. Something I wouldn't mind losing in a robbery.

Why would you voluntarily go to a place where you expect to be robbed?

I go to places where there is very little, to no, risk of being robbed. This is good.

Re: HMD Touch 4G

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Post by abc123abc123 »

It's a nice attempt. Dumbphone, with 2 MP camera and wifi hotspot. Sadly they shoot themselves in the foot by only offering it in india.

Now, if they would only remove the gimmicky touch screen, and replace it with buttons, the phone would be a perfect for those who do not like to have a surveillance device in their pocket. Or at least a "lesser" surveillance device.

Re: HMD Touch 4G

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Post by rjsw »

foragerdev wrote: post #83
rjsw wrote: post #53

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The linked page says that it can be a hotspot.

Then it can be very handy in terms of its usability of wifi hotspot devices. In case you want to access intenret remotely on your laptop or in your car. And in developing countries, you have to register your phones imei and pay tax if the value of your phone is greater than certain amount. And in that cases the amount of tax is maybe 50% of the actual price of the phone. So your phone is basically a brick with camera…

Some of HMD's KaiOS phones can be hotspots too, I have a 6300 4G that I use for that.

Re: HMD Touch 4G

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Post by lloeki »

amelius wrote: post #47
alfanick wrote: post #19

What is special about this? Does it cost $20? Is it a cheap smart phone (why do they call it a hybrid phone?) targetting India (mentioning of cricket)?

It says "Small phone". And it is indeed smaller than most smartphones. Apple never made a small smartphone, presumably because they need the big screen for their vending-machine-in-your-pocket to sell more content.

> And it is indeed smaller than most smartphones. Apple never made a small smartphone

I couldn't find specs for this thing but from the picture it looks to be about the same size as the original iPhone.

Re: HMD Touch 4G

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Post by lloeki »

wolvoleo wrote: post #63
m463 wrote: post #62

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many people await the return of the iphone mini...

Yes you still see so many around. They might not have sold enough by Apple standards but they still sold in huge absolute numbers.

Conversely, I am counting 6 persons (7 when including myself) in my direct close circle that do not upgrade because there is no Mini on the Apple lineup.

I'm not counting people that did upgrade but are spiteful of the forced size increase.

Re: HMD Touch 4G

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Post by iamtedd »

mathgeek wrote: post #85
iamtedd wrote: post #74

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Because India is the only country that cares about cricket? They're not even the only country in Asia where cricket's big.

I believe GP’s point is India is the place a company would highlight cricket scores above other marketing lines.

Cricket season is just starting up. I could see this ad in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, or hell, even Australia. India's not special.
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